On 2016-09-02 10:22:12 -0400, Damien Riegel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 03:14:34PM -0700, David Champion wrote:
> > I suggest that we decide upon a style and a target release (1.8? 1.9?)
> 
> It's not clear to me who "we" is in this context: people with push
> access, community, or something else? Anyway style is mostly a matter of
> taste and in the end we can all adapt to whatever style is chosen. (But
> please, get rid of the space before parenthesis for functions :).
> 
> > where that style will be applied to the whole code base.  Apply the
> > style from up top, using rules that are in the repo and no manual
> > tweaks, between code freeze and release.  We can put it in a commit hook
> > and document installing that hook in the developer notes.
> 
> There are two main drawbacks here:
>  - Applying new style to the whole code base makes "blame" less useful,
>    because most lines would be changed to a generic restyling commit.

Unless the -w option (to ignore white space) is used?
I have not tried, though.

>  - I think it will create unnecessary conflicts for people using patches
>    on top of vanilla mutt.

One can still apply the patch ignoring whitespace (-l), clean up
(reindent, etc.), and rebuild the patch. A bit annoying but this
would have to be done only once.

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